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One Colorado senator hailed President Barack Obama’s job speech Thursday night as a needed tonic for a down national economy while U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., said it fell short of encouraging job growth in western Colorado.

A future project to improve the Mesa Verde National Park U.S. 160 highway interchange recently received $4.6 million in Federal Highway Administration funds - the largest federal highway grant awarded in Colorado this year.

Three years ago, the Pueblo Community Health Center broke ground on its new facility with a goal of expanding its health care service to more Puebloans. On Friday, the center cut the ribbon on the final part of the three-year expansion, a new pharmacy and outreach center designed to help the agency expand its client base.

We must keep the promise to our senior citizens by protecting Medicare and Social Security. Currently, Medicare is on an unsustainable path. If Washington fails to act, the Medicare trustees – made up primarily of members of President Obama’s Cabinet – report that Medicare will be bankrupt by 2024.

The Air Force is revising its plan for controversial low-altitude training flights over Colorado to avoid the Eastern Plains, including the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site northeast of Trinidad. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., was given that assurance in recent meetings with the Air Force, his staff confirmed Friday while Tipton was visiting Pueblo and the Colorado State Fair.

This compares with Rep. Scott Tipton, a Republican from Cortez, who has held three town halls in far-ranging locales (Grand Junction, Pueblo and Cortez) and had almost a dozen public appearances, including the Montezuma County Fair and a question-and-answer session with Action 22, a group of mostly rural community leaders.

Interruption of speeches at Colorado Water Congress conventions with applause is rare, but then U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton is a good public speaker and he obviously struck a strong chord when he railed about the rising U.S. debt Wednesday. “I am having a tough time getting my arms around what is a million dollars, let a alone a billion dollars and now $14.3 trillion dollars,” he said, citing the U.S.

U.S. REP. Scott Tipton has persuaded the Air Force to dump its plan to perform low-altitude flights over Southeastern Colorado. The plan stirred anger among the many ranchers in the region, which the Air Force wanted to use for flights that could go as low as 200 feet with V-22 Ospreys and other special operations aircraft. Those craft are based at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M.